Sentences with phrase «seems glib»

This seems glib to me, a strained attempt to give the document contemporary political relevance.

In a lesser filmmakers hands this would seem glib and unbearably trite but Linklater is an old pro at integrating pop culture riffs without being too on the nose (last year's Everybody Wants Some with its «My Sharona» opening being a fine example).

Not exact matches

The days when Mark Zuckerberg felt like he could be glib about the idea of Russia using Facebook to interfere in the presidential election suddenly seem long ago.

He «came off as cold and calculating,» lacking in sincerity, «glib at inappropriate times, downright evasive at others,» and in general seemed «as much a machine as the bicycle he rode for so long.»

Maher and Limbaugh are actually kinda similar in how they seem to consider glib insults cute and witty, when they are neither.

Less persuasive, to me at least, is the claim that this probably continued until 1931, the year in which Lewis converted to Christianity (and would now think a relation with a married woman to be wrong) Wilson's way of making this point is, however, an instance of a very undesirable trait in his writing: the tendency to assert indirectly and to be glib while seeming to eschew it: «It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change, to adopt Christianity, merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs. Moore, whatever the nature of those relations had been.»

It must have seemed to him another example of a foolish attempt to tidy up a messy universe with a glib and unlikely formula.

If this is not too glib, Claiborne seems to suggest that we grade God's mercy on a curve.

The glib approach also pairs awkwardly with the shoehorned - in romance and clichéd lessons about teamwork and believing in yourself that seem to be mandatory for this sort of soft, PG - 13, major - studio fare.

Though he clearly loves his daughter, he is often glib and sarcastic toward Natalie and seems to chafe at the whole notion of marriage.

He's also pretty funny when it comes to the pretensions of the rock publications, which are made to seem scarcely less self - infatuated and glib than the rock stars.

The opening scene in Manhattan showing Sebastian outsmarting a glib psychotherapist — which has no counterpart in the novel — seems somewhat forced and contrived, but it does set up the character's cockiness with a minimum of fuss.

The more we learn about his plan, though, the more that Washington's performance seems a bad - to - the - bone stunt, a glib dabble in malevolence; it's less character study than career move.

And there is much emphasis on historical detail, archive footage, quaint language, to show that the attitudes were of the period (1924), but also annoyingly glib anachronisms that seem meant to demonstrate that prejudice is timeless.

In the absence of a narrative that makes much sense or seems to add up to much, it might be that Desplechin just wants to explore the themes above that makes it sound so glib.

I made that choice intentionally, though it entailed certain risks, the first, quite simply, that places of such celebrity may upstage characters and events; the second, that they will make the story seem superficial or glib, like the escapist fiction you buy at the airport to distract yourself from the boredom and anxiety of flying.

Re the pharmacy, it seems incredible they would suggest that you «sign it over to them», that is amazingly glib.

Certainly the effect seems facile — if not exactly glib, then more ambivalent and anxious than the subject warrants.

Every example here seems to simultaneously accept a dictate of order (a quilt does have to cover the bed and warm its inhabitants) and to invent a new graphic logic: less glib, more authentic, more dependable than the old rote geometries.

Altogether he seems out of place in our moment of glib - handed painting and cool narratives.

Nobody seems to know how to present a satisfactory defense of Renoir's silken brushwork, which is so often dismissed as glib and superficial.

It seems too glib this time.

Dr. Lindzen seems quite glib, at times, with his pat assurances about the minimal consequences of living with minor increments of surface heating.

Answers where you seem arrogant or glib are to be avoided at all costs.